AGS ideal cut diamonds

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Grading AGS ideal diamonds means the crystal clear diamonds have ideal cut proportions to gain the maximum brilliance of the precious stones. It is obvious that such arctic certified diamonds always have a certificate of origin, which one confirms the triple excellent quality of the precise stone.

Super ideal cut diamonds could be bought as the loose diamonds to complete your rings later. On the other hand, you can order custom made jewelry (for instance, made by jewelry designer Sergio Fleuri), which one would include the chosen Russian AGS ideal cut diamonds.

The term Hearts and Arrows diamonds is used to describe the visual effect achieved in a round super ideal cut diamond with perfect symmetry and angles that exhibit a crisp and complete pattern of Hearts and Arrows diamonds. When viewed under special magnifying viewer, a complete and precise visual pattern of 8 hearts is seen while looking down through the pavilion and 8 arrows when viewing the stone in the table up position which can be seen.

The true «Hearts and Arrows» pattern is extremely rare and difficult to find. Such super ideal cut diamonds (triple excellent) have three distinguishing factors — perfection in polish, symmetry, and proportion. Only one per million white Russian diamonds can be called «Hearts and Arrows» diamond.

All of the hearts and arrows diamond bezel, star, upper girdle, lower girdle, and pavilion main facets must be aligned precisely 180 degrees opposite of each other or the «Hearts and Arrows» pattern will be incomplete, misalign, faded or distorted in its appearance. All the facets must be exactly the same shape and size.

If the cut of the diamond is even slightly asymmetric, it results in uneven or incomplete display of the pattern. This «Hearts and Arrows» pattern generates light return of an average 99% in comparison with an average «Hearts and Arrows» that has a light return of an average 80%.

To gain this optimum reflection and refraction of light, the cutter must be willing to sacrifice expensive rough diamond material, losing significant percentage of costly rough stone to yield a superior beauty. Whereas it takes an hour to polish a standard cut, the «Super Ideal Cut» can take up to four days. As a result of the extremely complex cut and occurrence of a rare phenomenon, the diamonds exhibit a complete «Hearts and Arrows» pattern that cost more to produce than a regular round or even a standard ideal cut diamond.

The standard of the perfect degrees for maximum brilliance, blended with perfect degrees of the «Hearts and Arrows», results in the best diamond in the world today. The beauty that is the result of Russian jewelers best technical skills who labor to bring out the best from rough diamonds.